Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A general feeling that Sagasta will return to the head of affairs created a buoyant feeling in the Spanish markets. At Marseilles a clerk of the Credit Lyonnaise was seized by a man in the street, strangled and robbed of 50,000 francs. Alsace and Lorraine are to be thoroughly Germanized. Manteuffel, the Provincial Governor, has annulled the resolution passed by the District Diet of Upper Alsace allowing the use of French in debates. England informs Marquis Iseng that if China does not make important concessions she will give France full liberty of action in Tonquin. Hundreds of houses in the Haskieni quarter of Constantinople have been destroyed by fire. The Belgian Legislative Chambers have been almost completely swept away by fire. Many records have been destroyed which were invaluable, and the destruction of the building itself, which was built by Marla Theresa, is regarded in the light of a national calamity. The famous library, containing many rare books and important documents, was also destroyed. Shipbuilders on the Clyde are suffering a great falling off in business. At a meeting of agriculturists in London, the sentiment that America should be permitted to send dressed beef, but should be prohibited from shipping live cattle to Great Britain, was much applauded. At the trial in London of Wolff and Bandurand, the dynamite conspirators, an accomplice named Kalborn testified that five persons were concerned in the affair, including a police officer. They attempted to blow up the German embassy in order to secure a reward of £2,000 by pointing out an innocent man as the perpetrator and swearing away his life. A dervish swore upon the Koran at Khartoum that not one Egyptian soldier was left alive in Kordofan, whereupon 5,000 hearers armed themselves and declared for the False Prophet. For striking the Governor General of Eastern Siberia, a popular teacher at Irkutsk was arrested, and shot within twentyfour hours. Blum, Roman Catholic Bishop of Limburg, has been pardoned by an imperial edict, and his stipends restored. Great excitement has followed a duel at Rome between two prominent Italians. They tried hard to kill each other after such efforts had become ungentlemanly according to the code, and, in attempting to mend matters, the seconds all got to fighting with swords, the weapons of the duel, and made a very bloody and sensational ending of the affair. Thhe Queen insists upon Tennyson, the poet, accepting a peerage, and reports are to the effect that he looks kindly upon the proposition. According to a St. Petersburg special dispatch the Zemstvos, or provincial assemblies, of Russia will be intrusted by the Czar with the initiative in moderate reforms.

>v. A large force of. Hill men attacked five companies of Egyptian troops which were reconnoitering out Suakim, in the Soudan. The Egyptians were annihilated and their artillery captured. It is now believed that war between Trance awl China is inevitable. Both Powers have heed maJKg Atemrive preparations. France, it is said,’has chartered several English merch ant vessels to take arms and munitions Of war to Tonquin. M. Ferry’s war measures have been on a very extensive scale, and are said to be such as will un. pleasantly surprise the Chinese.